Maine, Nevada, North Dakota and South Carolina all held primaries yesterday. Miraculously — miraculously in light of the California experience — the results are in! RealClearPolitics has compiled them here.
Most notable by far is the expected victory of Maine’s Graham Platiner as the Democrats’ man to take on incumbent Republican Senator Susan Collins. Platner’s principal primary opponent was outgoing Govenor Janet Mills. She is old and respectable in a traditional way. She yielded to superior force and folded her campaign when it became apparent that Platner was an irresistible object to Democrats.
Platner is far out. We have come to know Platner by the Nazi tattoo he sported for some 18 years. The will to power compelled him to undertake an impressive amount of revisionist history — his own history. No one can compete with Ilhan Omar on that score, but Platner’s revisionism is mind-bending.
Andrew Stiles gets to the heart of the matter at the Free Beacon, “The Scum Also Rises: Graham Platner Makes History As First Vanity Oysterman With Nazi Tattoo To Win US Senate Nomination.” I can’t over the Nazi tattoo.
The Free Beacon has dug into Platner’s background with the intensity that the mainstream media devotes to Republicans, but with scrupulous care. See its stories exposing the real Graham Platner here. It’s a remarkable lineup of exposés.
The most outwardly leftist figures of the Democratic Party have rallied around Platner and the Democrat establishment followed. The endorsement of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer constituted a lagging indicator. The Nazi thing is a clue to where the action is among Democrats. National socialism, baby!
With her dormant campaign, Janet Mills attracted nearly 20 percent of the vote. The market for decency among Democrats continues to shrink. Platner is not an outlier. He is a visible marker of Democrats’ throbbing animus — the shape of things already here and the shape of things to come.
